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9 | 9 | business practice is incredibly anticonsumer and profit driven, and is much different from their previous, |
10 | 10 | respectable scheme where you paid directly for the item you wanted. |
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12 | | - Essential also tries to market itself as a mod library. Because of this, if another mod wants to use something |
13 | | - Essential offers, all users of the mod are forced to install Essential alongside the original mod. There is no way |
14 | | - around this. If you are a mod developer, please look elsewhere for the features Essential offers. Their libraries, |
15 | | - Elementa, Vigilance, and UniversalCraft can all be used individually without the need of Essential, should you |
16 | | - need to use them. However, Polyfrost has alternative libraries that may be more useful, such as their |
17 | | - UniversalCraft fork, OneConfig (Vigilance competitor), and PolyUI (Elementa competitor). I especially recommend |
18 | | - avoiding Vigilance in general, due to its myriad of issues that are known and acknowledged by the Essential devs, |
19 | | - yet have not been fixed even years later. |
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21 | 12 | Essential has tracking and data collection. This information may be shared to third parties as can be read in |
22 | 13 | their [privacy policy](https://essential.gg/privacy-policy), as well as what data they collect. |
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24 | | - Lastly, Essential is a half-baked mod. Almost every promise for new features has yet to be delivered since and |
| 15 | + Essential is a half-baked mod. Almost every promise for new features has yet to be delivered since and |
25 | 16 | before its release. Additionally, the features Essential currently has are purposefully made to be worse than |
26 | 17 | other mods. Most obvious of this is their built in zoom, which despite all of its features being copied from |
27 | 18 | Patcher, most of its functionality and customization was not added as to make it "less intimidating and easier |
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33 | 24 | to do everything, especially when it breaks everything else along the way. Using a mod loader means you have the |
34 | 25 | freedom to use whatever mods you want. Don't feel tied down by Essential! |
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| 27 | + Essential also tries to market itself as a mod library. Because of this, if another mod wants to use something |
| 28 | + Essential offers, all users of the mod are forced to install Essential alongside the original mod. There is no way |
| 29 | + around this. If you are a mod developer, please look elsewhere for the features Essential offers. Their libraries, |
| 30 | + Elementa, Vigilance, and UniversalCraft can all be used individually without the need of Essential, should you |
| 31 | + need to use them. There are other libraries such as OmniCore (UniversalCraft competitor), OneConfig (Vigilance |
| 32 | + competitor), and PolyUI (Elementa competitor). I especially recommend avoiding Vigilance in general, due to its |
| 33 | + myriad of issues that are known and acknowledged by the Essential devs, yet have not been fixed even years later. |
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36 | 35 | Don't feel forced to use Essential! |
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